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Baron Munchausen’s Crawl Test Lab

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My hearer could listen to the grass grow, and even he could not tell when I had finished describing the Moon.

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The front and back halves of the Baron's horse, each going about its business.
Fig. 35. The specimen, drawn from life.

Geese fly south because I told them to. Before my day they wandered about in circles and froze. I drew a map on a barn door and gave a short lecture. They took careful notes. Every fall a few of them still honk my name as they pass over the house.

Summer came late one year because the Sun overslept. I rode east and knocked on the horizon with my sword. A sleepy voice asked me for five more minutes. I gave it three. That was the shortest June on record, and the farmers of Hungary blamed me for the peas.

My uncle grew a turnip so large it had its own weather. Rain fell on the north side. Sheep grazed on the leaves and got lost. I dug for a week and struck a Roman road. We boiled it in a lake, and all of Saxony had supper that night.

Innkeepers in Bavaria hide when I arrive. At one such house I ordered a small snack. They brought a calf, ten loaves, and a keg. I asked if this was the first course. The owner fainted. His wife then gave me the deed to the place, just to make me leave.

Snoring is a talent, and mine once saved a fleet. We sat becalmed near Malta with.